Month: December 2016

North America is driving global liquefaction capacity growth, accounting for 70% of the total capacity growth by 2020, while Asia and Europe dominate global regasification capacity growth. The Former Soviet Union and the Middle East follow with expected additions of 35.4 mtpa and 32.3 mtpa respectively.

In terms of regasification capacity, Asia leads planned capacity additions with 11.3 tcf by 2020 through 64 regasification terminals. Europe follows with plans for an additional 3.0 tcf of capacity.

The majority of global HNW investors’ assets are booked in discretionary asset management services offered by wealth managers. Generally discretionary mandates appear to be more accessible to clients than advisory services, as many competitors (including UBS Wealth Management and JP Morgan Private Bank and their UK propositions) have set higher minimum investment thresholds for advised portfolios.

The greater interaction between advisors and clients under advisory mandates can make them more costly and labor-intensive for wealth managers. However, the tendency to give up control over investment decisions is influenced by a number of other factors, and regional differences in the uptake of discretionary mandates can also be observed.

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Asia-Pacific to Experience Highest Demand for Steam Generators between 2016 and 2025

The global steam generators (SGs) market for nuclear power was valued at $7.3 billion during 2010–2015, which is projected to reach $13.9 billion during 2016-2025. Asia-Pacific is expected to emerge as the largest market during 2016-2025 accounting for 47.2% of global nuclear steam generators market with $6.6 billion growing from $2 billion during 2010–2015. Europe is expected to remain at second position with 35.5% of of global nuclear steam generators market share followed by North America with 8.8%, Middle East and Africa with 7.8%, and South and Central America with 0.7%.

The above figure illustrates region-by-region share of the global Steam generators market in terms of value between 2016 and 2025.

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Global economic fluctuations and rising competition in the manufacturing sector have compelled manufacturers to slowly shift their focus to revenue growth. Additionally, intense competition in this sector has pushed manufacturers to adopt next generation disruptive technologies in order to improve their operational processes and enhance customer satisfaction.

The survey illustrates that manufacturers are planning to increase their ICT investments in 2016, compared to 2015, as they are looking to embrace technological advancements to improve plant productivity and maintain a competitive edge

60% of respondents are planning to increase their overall ICT investments either slightly (1%-5%) or significantly (6%+) in 2016, witnessing an increase of 16% compared to 2015.

Likewise, the percentage of respondents expecting their ICT expenditure to remain flat is set to decline by 13% compared to 2015, reaching a figure of 26% in 2016.

The survey also shows that only 14% of manufacturers are willing to decrease their ICT budget in 2016, compared to 17% in 2015.

Kable’s latest report ‘ICT investment trends in manufacturing‘ presents the findings from a survey of 227 manufacturers regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how manufacturers currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT expenditure: hardware, software, IT services, communications, and consulting.

The report illustrates the core technologies that manufacturers are investing in, including enterprise application, security products, IoT, and cloud computing.

The survey also highlights the approach to purchasing technology adopted by manufacturers.

Through Kable’s survey, the report aims to provide a better insight to ICT vendors and service providers when pitching their solutions to manufacturers.

The report focuses on manufacturers’ ICT expenditure trends for specific business areas and technologies, identifying the top three IT projects, and understanding the business challenges faced by organizations.

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Global revenues for the cancer vaccines market are forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 16.93%, from $2.5 billion in 2015 to $7.5 billion in 2022. Cancer vaccines are being developed as a method of preventing certain types of cancer, and as therapeutic treatments to treat existing cancers across a range of indications in oncology.

The high mortality rate associated with cancer and its resistance to conventional treatments such as radiation and chemotherapy has led to the investigation of a variety of anti-cancer immunotherapies, which have a lower toxicity associated with their use than traditional chemotherapies, investigation of a variety of anti-cancer immunotherapies, which have a lower toxicity associated with their use than traditional chemotherapies.

Therapeutic vaccine administration will increase the overall survival of poor-performance-status patients, and enable more rounds of treatment to be given – factors that will contribute to growing global revenues for this class of therapy. However, cancer vaccines are not perceived as having strong commercial potential, as immune checkpoint inhibitors are expected to dominate the treatment landscape for leukemia and lymphoma during the forecast period.

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This report is the result of an extensive survey drawn from Pyramid Research’s exclusive panel of industry executives. From a geographic perspective, out of 87 respondents, 30 respondents (34%) are based in Latin America, 17 respondents (20%) are based in North America, 22% of respondents are based in Europe, 15% are based in Middle East and Africa, and the remaining 9% are based in the Asia-Pacific region. The largest block of respondents (38%) came from the telecom service provider community, with professional services companies and equipment/device vendors accounting for 23% & 13% of respondents, respectively. Others include independent software vendors and media & entertainment.

What to expect over the next two years:

Respondents operating in Europe showcased a higher maturity level regarding BDA solutions, with a higher percentage of respondents in advanced stages of BDA implementation in comparison to other regions.

Customer segmentation and network optimization are considered important predictive analytics models to register growth within the telecom industry, targeting to enhance customer experience and network efficiencies.

Effective collaboration between data teams and business units is considered a key best practice for maximizing BDA opportunities within companies

Over the next two years, 17% of telecom industry respondents expect revenue between US$1 m and US$5 m from investment in BDA during 2016-2018

The majority of respondents expect collaborative and creative problem solving will be critical in maintaining strong BDA vendor relationship within telecom industry

Pyramid Research’s Big Data Analytics Adoption / Usage Trends 2016-2018 report examines the overall spend on BDA, market opportunities influencing communication service providers to invest in BDA, the best practices for maximizing BDA opportunities and the critical aspects to maintain strong BDA vendor relationship within the organization. Additionally, the report provides information about the spending pattern of BDA budget and indicates challenges which are expected to inhibit the adoption of BDA within the organizations.

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The US department stores market recorded sales of US$156.8 billion in 2015, representing 30.2% of global department store sales. Increased competition and online retailing threatens department store sales in the country. Despite low growth of 0.6% in department stores retail sales during 2015–2020, the US will continue to be the largest market, ahead of China.

What does it mean?Department stores need to invest in off-price formats, which will also help them in inventory clearance, to maintain sales. However, to retain status, they need to prudently discount luxury goods, which may otherwise affect brand image, and lead brands to withdraw their products from department stores.

Verdict Retail’s latest report Global Department Stores Retailing 2015-2020provides a comprehensive view of the global department stores retail landscape, including current market sizes and category forecasts to 2020; and highlights the world’s fastest growing markets and category groups. The report includes details on market size and category forecasts for each region and countries, and features major retailers, key innovative retailers, and department store retail trends; Covers the 50 largest retail markets and includes 24 countries in Europe, 12 countries in Asia-Pacific, nine countries in the Americas, and five countries in the Middle East and Africa.